When the World Was

Pippa Skotnes’s gloriously detailed pictures add soul to the wonderful, poetically written and very necessary story of When the World Was – a picture book based on |xam texts from the Bleek and Lloyd archive. It tells of a beginning when the world was alive with possibilities, animals were people, people could command the wind and rain, the sun had the power of speech, and many languages were spoken. A folk tale from Southern Africa that adults are likely to enjoy just as much as kids will.